I disagree. I love the synthetic but they were a little too easy to get rolling on the population. The durantium does lend itself to a bit of a speed bump that is important due to the changes in the way population affects production now. It also gives synthetics a weakness. If you are fighting synthetics then take out their durantium mines. On smaller maps it may even give other races an edge. On the other hand, on much larger maps with lots of resources, you can have multiple planets running full tilt with population fairly quickly even with the need for durantium.

Major problem in my game and don't know if it is worth going on but am playing a synthetic custom race, turn 81 and NO durantium on the whole map it seems. Gone to every opponent diplomatic screen and none have any durantium plus my colonies have zero and have explored a lot of space and none anywhere. Is it worth going on?

Major problem in my game and don't know if it is worth going on but am playing a synthetic custom race, turn 81 and NO durantium on the whole map it seems. Gone to every opponent diplomatic screen and none have any durantium plus my colonies have zero and have explored a lot of space and none anywhere. Is it worth going on?

That is annoying. The prob with all of this is that it's pretty much impossible to have a balanced game (between the diff races) with resources set to 'rare'.

Ideally, I like to play without too much resource spam, but it so severely crimps synths/silicates that it's really just not possible to do. The only balancing action that I can see would be to provide some alternative avenue for constructing population. Or making carbon/water based races rely somehow on the same types of resource allocations. Such as making food a resource floating out in space, then requiring food for pop growth..

I had a game just like yours and started over. Not sure if it's possible to mod a save game to add a resource or not..

Forgot to mention, that is from a really old version so the actual commands are not the same in some cases. Don't recall which off the top of my head. Once you get it setup and working just type help to list all the current commands, find what you want them type commandname help to see what it does